It wasn’t quite Jane Austen meets Friday Night Lights in regard to the plot… and yet it was. It was also a toss-up for me on the overall themes of the book. I think I kept trying to make my connection with her more personal but that wasn’t quite working out so it took me a while to warm to her. Devon wasn’t a bad student but she has more of a general apathy towards school so while I was able to latch onto the idea of the book, it was actually sort of hard for me to connect with Devon on that level.
Where I didn’t connect was that Devon didn’t really care - I was an avid student and I enjoyed school, working hard to get good grades. I knew I was going to a community college for two years to save money because I got a scholarship but I hadn’t the slightest idea what sort of career I wanted or how to set up the rest of my life at eighteen so I really connected with Devon on that level quite a bit! I thought Emma Mills did a great job at setting up that range of emotions for Devon and how hard it was to have that pressure from people. I really enjoyed seeing that theme because that’s exactly how I felt in high school. She’s a senior and keeps getting pushed to figure out what colleges to apply to and what she wants to do with the rest of her life and really has no clue. Devon is the protagonist of the book and I both related to her and had a hard time connecting to her all at once. The first thing that stuck out to me about the book was the characters. Pride and Prejudice meets Friday Night Lights in this contemporary novel about falling in love with the unexpected boy, with a new brother, and with yourself.Īdmittedly I haven’t read any Jane Austen but when “Friday Night Lights” is thrown into a book description, you better believe my ears have perked and my interest is caught! I’m actually not a huge football fan in general but the football games throughout from freshman to senior year were a big part of my high school experience so I really hold some nostalgic feelings for them! Naturally, by the time I got around to reading FIRST & THEN, I was very excited! class and then into every other aspect of her life. It delivers Devon's cousin Foster, an unrepentant social outlier with a surprising talent for football, and the obnoxiously superior and maddeningly attractive star running back, Ezra, right where she doesn't want them first into her P.E. She's happy watching Friday night games from the bleachers, silently crushing on best friend Cas, and blissfully ignoring the future after high school. Find it on the web: Buy from Amazon // Goodreads Date Completed: August 21, 2015ĭevon Tennyson wouldn't change a thing.
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